NASA’s picture of the day from yesterday hammers home the fact that we are very small—and living in a very big universe.
The photo, is of a small (10° × 7°) section of the night sky, looking at the crowded star fields toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. APOD: 2006 June 23 – [...]
Posted on Saturday 24th June 2006 in Blog, Science tagged Links, Photos, space, universe, with no comments.
BP may now be using the slogan[1] “Beyond Petroleum”, but that does not mean they are reducing the amount of oil they are extracting, just how they are carefully using ‘spin’ to make people believe that. Another very insightful article by George Monbiot: Still Drilling, which is well worth reading whether you’re an [...]
Posted on Tuesday 13th June 2006 in Engineering, Politics, Science tagged Engineering, environmental, peak_oil, Politics, recycling, UK, with no comments.
An article on the BBC News website describes new robotic explorers that are being tested for the Antarctic, Robotic route for Polar pioneers. If we can send remote operated vehicles to Mars, then surely we can send them to the most extreme parts of our own planet.
This is a pretty cool idea (excuse the [...]
Posted on Wednesday 5th April 2006 in Science tagged climate change, Engineering, Science, technology, with no comments.
WOW!
Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day
from NASA is of a Volcano and Aurora in Iceland
Sometimes both heaven and Earth erupt. In Iceland in 1991, the volcano Hekla erupted at the same time that auroras were visible overhead.
This is just amazing, and you must view this image, I only wish that I could have been there [...]
Posted on Sunday 29th January 2006 in Blog, Science tagged art, geology, Photos, Science, with no comments.
A rather amazing sculpture, the subject of which is somewhat difficult to grasp, has been designed by Professor Ocneanu. It is a 3-diminsional representation, or shadow, of a 4-dimensional shape. More details at Science News Daily.
Another such four dimensional shape, which is perhaps easier to work out, is the tesseract. This is [...]
Posted on Friday 21st October 2005 in Engineering, Science tagged art, Engineering, Links, Science, with no comments.
